glass house collective next big thing outcomes
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PREPARED BY: MALLORY B.E. BACHES, THE CIVIC HUBAND THE GLASS HOUSE COLLECTIVE STAFF
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSGlass House Collective is incredibly thankful and humbled for the outpouring of support during the planning and execution of The Next Big Thing Urbanism Workshop. Held in April 2015, the strategic vision listed in this document is a direct result of the contributions of the many talented participants who represented a cross-section of professions. Artists, residents, public officials, designers, planners, architects, community advocates, and administrators came together to work hand-in-hand with our residents to form an effective multidisciplinary and cohesive group.
This intentional approach had the goal of providing a diverse knowledge base. This allowed the teams to meaningfully address social, economic, political and physical issues. What a success! We are grateful for this expertise and we are pleased to share Glass House Collective’s forward vision as formulated by the teams.
PROJECT COORDINATORS:Teal ThibaudGlass House Collective
Mallory BachesThe Civic Hub
TEAM FACILITATORS:David Barlew, Jr.David Barlew Architects
Gene BurseLivable Memphis
Ann CoulterKennedy, Coulter, Rushing & Watson
Will DowdyUrban Design Studio, City of Portland
Gary GastonNashville Civic Design Center
Kristen JeffersThe Black Urbanist
Bert KuyrkendallChattanooga-Hamilton County RPA
Adrian LipscombeActive Transportation Department, City of Austin
Lauren LoweryDepartment of Neighborhood Development, City of Norfolk
Eric MyersElemi Architects
Ceara O’LearyDetroit Collaborative Design Center
Thomas PalmerCogent Studio
Chooch PickardMemphis Regional Design Center
Macon ToledanoLyndhurst Foundation
Justin TirsunChattanooga-Hamilton County RPA
Michael Waltongreen|spaces
Mike WatkinsMichael Watkins, Architect
Rick WoodTrust for Public Land
PROJECT MENTORS:Mike LydonStreet Plans Collaborative
Maurice CoxTulane University School of Architecture
Stroud WatsonKennedy, Coulter, Rushing & Watson
TEAM MEMBERS:Zach AtchleyBlythe BaileyKelly FitzgeraldEd GarbeeMallory NelsonMary McSearsKareeceesha ShepheardAlexis Willis
Dan BowersDaniel Crlencic Daniel GambleFuller HannanFernando MartinezMildred MorelandRebekah Mawuko
John BilderbackKim BondsDan BryanAshley ConradChelsea ConradSarah CookRondell CrierLaura Margaret JonesReginald Ruff
Carmen DavisBob FranklinToni GainesBrandi HillKatie McCallisterKathleen NolteStrat ParrottSarah Robbins
John BrownDale GrissoCarlos HamptonTaylor KinserAndrew SteeleMichael PraterElizabeth Williams
Brad BennettGabby Blades Akosua CookStefanie deOlloqui Sally MorrowKeif SchleiferElise WalkerLevar Wilson
Ross AndrewsJohn BridgerBethany CongdonBob McNuttNori MossPeter MurphyJeff PfitzerKaren RennichBrad SheltonWill SmithBrandon Sutton
Jonathan ButlerLauren DunnMartin GaddJennifer HolderOlga de KleinCat Collier MartinezMarcus Simon
Lisa FlintHunter FranksBrandi HillChris LykinsGail McKeelJames MorelandWilliam Smith
INTRODUCTIONGlass House Collective (GHC) was founded to “bring life back to Glass Street and Glass Street back to life”. Using a strategic, community-driven, grassroots engagement process, East Chattanooga residents define GHC’s workplan and associated tasks. In the inaugural phase of our work (2012-2014), GHC helped create and implement a citizen/artist/partner led vision to make Glass Street’s historic, two-block commercial corridor safer, cleaner and more inviting through creative placemaking projects. What a change!
In April 2015, we repeated the successful planning process to define new added value strategies and projects that are needed to move us forward. GHC’s first step was the hosting of the “The Next Big Thing Urbanism Workshop.” During this intensive design gathering, over 100 participants convened with the sole purpose of suggesting specific ways to improve Glass Street. Participants were organized into nine teams and challenged to consider how improved urbanism could have a positive impact on various aspects of the neighborhood. This includes business viability, quality public spaces, access to services, improved housing options, increased public safety, and opportunities for the community members to engage and contribute. At the same time, the strategies offered needed to be realistic, measurable and supportive of the neighborhood’s culture and values.
While considering opportunities for the East Chattanooga community’s future, teams were mindful of balancing three pairs of core concerns:
Places People:
designs should value the places – both figure and ground -- that give form to the community, while always valuing the people that give life to the community.Movement Access:
designs need to address the movement to, from, and through the community, while being sure to address the equity of access into, out of, and within the community.Investment Character:
designs will encourage investment in the community and by the community, but should do so by encouraging activation of the existing culture and assets of the community.
Team suggestions or designs were required to leverage the existing assets in the community. This East Chattanooga neighborhood has strengths in its physical places, existing businesses, and built environment as well in its individuals, organizations, and earlier accomplishments. While there is still work to be done, it is important to build upon and add value to what currently exists. GHC’s core value is work with our community and our residents.
THE RESULTS AND STRATEGIESThe results were amazing! Dozens of creative, realistic, and scalable urban revitalization tactics for improving residential, commercial, and public spaces within a 5 minute walking radius surrounding historic Glass Street were offered, visualized and defined. A comprehensive list of all proposed plans is included in the appendix of this document. Post-conference, we began sharing these ideas through a series of community conversations.
After analysis, GHC has a compiled set of programmatic goals and strategies for the next three years. This strategic vision mirrors the participant designs and specifically addresses implementation of efforts that can be completed within 1 month (short-term), 1 year (mid-term), and 3 year (long-term) time frames, prioritizing lighter, quicker, and cheaper techniques. Additionally, the three focus areas for Glass House Collective’s work emerged into three categories:
Glass House Collective’s 2016-2018 Programmatic Goals include:
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT• Renovate and activate a vacant business storefront along Glass Street.• Animate three (3) vacant business spaces with temporary events/installations along Glass Street.• Recruit three (3) new business tenants/building owners to Glass Street.
PUBLIC SPACE/STREETSCAPING DEVELOPMENT• Connect the Glass Street community to the 50-acre Sherman Reservation National Park.• Activate three (3) underutilized public spaces through temporary events/installations.• Drive permanent public space/streetscaping infrastructure improvements along Glass Street.
RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT• Engage 45 East Chattanooga homeowners in landscaping improvement projects.• Engage 30 East Chattanooga homeowners in minor exterior home improvement projects.
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
PUBLIC SPACE AND STREETSCAPE
RESIDENTIAL IMPROVEMENT
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
MISSION:Glass House Collective will improve local business viability by:
• Housing GHC operations in vacant and underutilized buildings. This creates foot traffic so that potential developers can visualize themselves in the space and worthy of their investment.
• Filling empty storefronts with events and art installations.
• Continuing to inventory redevelopment opportunities and drive permanent investment to Glass Street’s built assets.
GOAL #1:Renovate and activate a vacant business storefront along Glass Street.
Selected Success Highlights: • Renovated and activated 2523 Glass Street: GHC resided in this building as temporary headquarters from 2012 – 2014. Garth Brown, Glass House resident architect, designed and partnered with a construction company to renovate the storefront. It became home to Rebekah Mawuko’s Moving Forward Studio, and Eric “Seven” Finley’s Urban Artformz Institute as part of our 2014 Artist Residency Program. The amination of this space helped attract a private developer to purchase the building • Façade Improvement Program Leading to Business Development with a Community Impact: Assisted in the renovation and activation of 2432 Glass Street through our 2013 Facade Improvement Program. Rondell Crier’s Studio Everything moved into this space as a part of our 2014 Artist Residency Program. In 2015, Rondell secured outside funding to continue operations at their Glass Street location. In addition to his commissioned work, Studio Everything provides a free resource studio to the community with access, consultation and mentorship to East Chattanooga residents who want to learn techniques such as welding, woodworking, painting, and screen printing. • Assisted in the renovation and activation of 2200 Glass Street: As a worthy recipient of the 2013 Facade Improvement Program, this historic building housed ‘The Next Big Thing’ workshop in the Spring of 2015. It has a new owner who is currently making plans for its new mission.
Glass House Collective will work with the community and partners from around the city to determine which of the below or other strategies will be implemented to achieve the overall goal.
Short-Term Strategies: • Identify key spaces that are suitable for GHC operations. • Approach property owner about their long-term vision and commitment to Glass Street. Once understood, a formalized leasing agreement will be executed which will include a strategic vision for build out and storefront improvements.
Mid-Term Strategies: • Use temporary headquarters to host meet and greets as well as neighborhood meetings. • Program the space regularly which include opportunities for both potential tenants and/or potential investors to see Glass Street in action.
Long-Term Strategies: • Identify tenants to occupy the space long-term when the owner shows interest in retaining building ownership. • Identify another key space when needed and approach property owner about a lease.
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
GOAL #2:Bring three (3) vacant commercial spaces ‘back to life’ with temporary events/installations along Glass Street.Selected Highlighted Successes: • Better Block Event: Modelled after the nationally recognized Build a Better Block public revisioning effort, GHC facilitated an event to transform Glass Street into a ‘complete street’. The goal was to invigorate the street with events and attractions in a safe and efficient way for enjoyment by all. Attracting over 1,200 participants, the focal point was the artist and architect produced creative street side installations and Pop Up shops. With 25+ creatives at the helm, memorable moments included a new community space designed by Hefferlin+Kronenberg Architects, which exists today, artist Olga de Klein’s yarn-bombed trolley, and an interactive pop-up installation called ‘Harambee’. Attracting national attention, de Klein’s trolley was a 30-foot wide, 15-foot tall mixed media mural made using 17,151 yards of yarn. It was a site to see and was a source of pride for the community.
• Bank Art Center (BAC): The effort created a 30-day pop-up art and culture space for learning, exhibitions, and performance located in one of Glass Street’s most iconic buildings. This temporary gallery, featured live jazz music, curator talks, and children’s art activities. Renowned African American artists Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Elizabeth Catlett, Joseph Delaney, and Thornton Dial were highlighted in the gallery. Local partners included James McKissic (collector), Shane Morrow (curator), and Carmen Davis (jazz musician) as part of a series of events celebrating Black History Month.
Glass House Collective will work with the community and partners from around the city to determine which of the below or other strategies will be implemented to achieve the overall goal.
Short-Term Strategies: • Identify three (3) storefronts and programmatic partners. • Host five (5) events/installations. • Paint windows and add lighting. • Add temporary signage to storefronts along Glass Street. • Host pop-up art galleries.
Mid-Term Strategies: • Host five (5) events/installations. • Establish a ‘Pop-Up to Permanent’ entrepreneurial development program that incubates small businesses in underutilized properties until they are ready for a permanent home. • Renovate historic signage for iconic places such as the Rivoli Theatre and Ray’s Records.
Long-Term Strategies: • Identify three (3) new spaces. • Create a permanent sign program, commissioned by local artists
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
GOAL #3:Recruit three (3) new building acquisitions/ business tenants to Glass Street.
Selected Highlighted Successes: • Attract Working Artists: Glass House recruited three instructional artist studios to Glass Street. This includes Rondell Crier’s Studio Everything, Rebekah Mawuko’s Moving Forward Studio, and Eric “Seven” Finley’s Urban Artformz. • Attract Developers: Glass House Collective helped attract new private developers to Glass Street who purchased and renovated 2523 Glass Street, 2200 Glass Street, 2501 Glass Street, and 2510 N. Chamberlain Avenue.
Glass House Collective will work with the community and partners from around the city to determine which of the below or other strategies will be implemented to achieve the overall goal.
Short-Term Strategies: • Maintain an inventory of available and vacant buildings with detailed specifications to efficiently communicate with potential investors and tenants. • Connect potential investors and tenants with contact information and resources needed to consider the Glass Street neighborhood as their new home for their business.
Mid-Term Strategies: • Identify, recruit and connect investor with building owners. • Meet and network with potential community development professionals who are interested in the thriving Chattanooga real estate market.
Long-Term Strategies: • Work with state, county, city and private agencies who provide business incentives. GHC needs to connect potential
investors and small business to resources that will attract them to the Glass Street neighborhood.
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP NEEDS • Creation of a Redevelopment Corporation responsible for ongoing investment. • Creation of a Community Design Center or partnership with existing design studio to be responsible for providing design assistance. • Secure Community Development Block Grant, Tax Increment Financing, Housing and Urban Development, historic preservation, and similar funding to support needed investment. • Program for local businesses to access business development loans.
PUBLIC SPACE & STREETSCAPING
MISSION:Glass House Collective will strategically shape the physical and social character of the Glass Street neighborhood around arts and cultural activities that animate public and private spaces to bring diverse people together to celebrate this special place by: • Increasing access, investment, shared accountability, and the celebration of Glass Street’s bountiful natural/cultural amenities. With a 50-acre National Park in Glass Street’s “backyard”, our community needs to work together through sweat-equity, inclusionary process, collaborative planning, and community-based advocacy to connect with Sherman Reservation. • Generating social capital, through neighborhood-based events. This includes social networks of reciprocity and trustworthiness. • Enhancing neighborhood pride through signage and beautification projects. • Improving ‘complete streets’ connectivity throughout and beyond the Glass Street neighborhood. ‘Complete streets’ are designed for all roadway users including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders. Users of all ages and abilities deserve to have safe efficient travel options. • Driving permanent investment in and activation of permanent infrastructure and open spaces along Glass Street.
GOAL #1:Connect the Glass Street neighborhood to Sherman Reservation, a 50-acre National Park, at the north end of Glass Street through a pedestrian trail network animated with artistic way-finding signage and public art.Glass House Collective will work with the community and partners from around the city to determine which of the below or other strategies will be implemented to achieve the overall goal.
Short-Term Strategies: • Identify partners. • Host volunteer clean up days. • Execute ‘Fitness Loop Phase I’ to provide public access to this historic natural amenity in the Glass Street neighborhood. A resident/artist generated plan is needed to establish a pedestrian trail network connecting Glass Street to Sherman Reservation. • Create way-finding signage that introduces visitors to Sherman Reservation and the Awtry Street trailhead. • Flag, clear, and build the main trail. • Install crosswalk along South Crest Road.
• Celebrate September 2016 National Park Service/Sherman Reservation 100-year anniversary.
Mid-Term Strategies: • Add signage, furniture, technology and equipment promoting use of the open space for public fitness and active recreation. • Create multiple trails in the Trust for Public Land owned land including one trail for the fitness loop utilizing Glass Street. • Acquire the parking area across from the Sherman Reservation trailhead.
Long-Term Strategies: • Establish a Friend’s of Sherman’s Reservation. • With partners, acquire land to connect Trust for Public Land’s property to Sherman Reservation, Sherman Reservation to Billy Goat Hill, and Billy Goat Hill to the South Chick Greenway.
PUBLIC SPACE & STREETSCAPING
GOAL #2:Activate three (3) underutilized public spaces through
temporary events/installations.
Selected Highlighted Successes: • Activated Glass Street through Glass Street Live Block Party in 2012 and Better Block Glass Street in 2013.
• Partnership with Resident Led Good Neighbor Network: GHC works closely with the Good Neighbor Network who spearheaded many popular community engagement efforts such as Sausage Fest, Pardi Gras, Little Free library, clean up days and a community bulletin board.
• Pocket Parks: Stimulated two new pocket parks with numerous community cook outs, two permanent murals, and Rise-Up Chattanooga. Rise-Up Chattanooga was a temporary public art installation by Virginia-based artist Charlie Brouwer in which 452 ladders borrowed from families, schools, businesses, churches, and organizations from all over the Chattanooga community. They were joined together with heavy-duty cable ties to form a temporary sculpture on the grounds of Glass House Collective.
• First and Second Annual Gospel on Glass: GHC hosted music festivals celebrating gospel as an active artform in the community.
Glass House Collective will work with the community and partners from around the city to determine which of the below or other strategies will be implemented to achieve the overall goal.
Short-Term Strategies: • Host a Meet-A-Neighbor Community BBQ. • Host a monthly pocket park movie night. • Lead a ‘Clean & Green’ community clean-up walk with fire/police participation. • Create block parties with the Bike Cart. • Establish a monthly farmers market/vendor fair.
• Host music/puppets/community theatre events.
Mid-Term Strategies: • Do another large-scale, temporary Rise Up Chattanooga-style artist installation. • Paint the plaza pavement at N. Chamberlain Avenue and Glass Street. • Continue to host a series of block-by-block neighbor meet-and-greets. • Host an ‘Open Streets’ event (temporarily close streets to automobile traffic, so that people may use them for walking, bicycling, dancing, playing, and socializing). • Schedule pop-ups and parades to bring the public to Glass Street. • Host a street festival that showcases the community. • Host Gospel on Glass event annually.
Long-Term Strategies: • Host activities along Glass Street, including an annual intersection painting.
RESIDENTIALGOAL #2:Engage 30 East Chattanooga homeowners in minor exterior home improvement projects.
Short-Term Strategies: • Identify 5 willing homeowners, partner organizations, and funding to make improvements. • Coordinate residential upkeep workdays. • Offer small stipends to residents to remove chain-link fences. • Develop a how-to guide for quick, inexpensive, and easy curb appeal projects. • Create a ‘Neighborhood Handyman’ program to help residential with upkeep.
Mid-Term Strategies: • Identify 10 willing homeowners, partner organizations, and funding. • Establish a neighborhood beautification program, provide housing improvements through volunteer and homeowner work days to area properties in need of upkeep. • Establish a ‘Porches of East Chattanooga’ program providing homeowner improvements to neighborhood front porches. • Pair neighbors with artists in a community-wide art door project called Open Doors.
Long-Term Strategies: • Identify 15 willing homeowners, partner organizations, and funding. • Develop a Glass Street Comprehensive Plan to guide growth and investment in the surrounding community, with special attention given to diversity of housing. • Develop a book titled The Porches of East Chattanooga, which would feature photographs of the many attractive porches in the neighborhood.
RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP NEEDS • Creation of a Housing Resource Center to assist homeowners in improving properties. • Creation of a Community Housing Trust. • Creation of a Community Design Center responsible for providing design assistance. • Connections with HUD, historic preservation, and similar funding to support needed investment. • Identification of programs for local homeowners to access home improvement loans.
OUR APPROACHGlass House Collective’s mission is to bring life back to Glass Street, and Glass Street back to life. Each strategy will be artist-led and community driven. Glass House Collective is committed to this model and actively engages the community so that residents continue to feel connected to our work. Using this bike cart, we can be seen with our wheels and feet on the street.
We look forward to meeting again in the future at our next workshop to continue our efforts involving creative placemaking, feet on the streets, and new partnerships while bringing life back to Glass Street and Glass Street back to life.
CATEGORY HOW-TO GUIDE
ARCHITECTURE ART COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
HEALTH PLANNING OPEN SPACE
SAFETY STREETSCAPE TRANSPORTATION COST PARTNERS
TEAM 1Facilitators: Kristen Jeffers and Justin Tirsun
Members: Alexis Willis, Mallory Nelson, Mary McSears, Kareeceesha Shepheard, Zach Atchley, Ed Garbee, Kelly Fitzgerald
Painted traffic table(s) at key intersection(s) Here Because We Love It Here X X $ City of Chattanooga, DOT
Street calming demonstration on Chamberlain Street ✓ X X $ Good Neighbor Network, Bike Walk Chattanooga
Host faith-based stakeholder meeting X X $ Good Neighbor Network
Meet-a-Neighbor Community BBQ Bringing Life Back to Glass Street
✓ X $ Good Neighbor Network
Raised traffic table(s) at key intersection(s) X $$ City of Chattanooga, DOT
Coordinate faith-based organizations X $ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Good Neighbor Network
Conduct inventory of needs X X $ CHCRPA, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise
Build resources for needs X $$ Lyndhurst Foundation, Benwood Foundation
Open Streets/pop-ups/parades Bringing Life Back to Glass Street
✓ X X X X $$ Good Neighbor Network
Block-by-block neighbor meet-and-greets Bringing Life Back to Glass Street
✓ X X $ Good Neighbor Network
First-time Farmers Market ✓ X X X X $ Good Neighbor Network
Permanent Infrastructure Improvements X X $$$ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA, DOT
Housing investment in critical areas X X X $$$ CHCRPA, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise
Forming a real bond with neighbors X X $ Good Neighbor Network
Strategy to use enforcement of codes X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA
Fully-functional grocer with farmers market component X X X X $$$ City of Chattanooga
CATEGORY ARCHITECTURE ART COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
HEALTH PLANNING OPEN SPACE
SAFETY STREETSCAPE TRANSPORTATION COST PARTNERS
TEAM 2Facilitators: Adrian Lipscomb, Bert Kuyrkendall
Members: Mildred Moreland, Daniel Ceciric, Daniel Gamble, Rebekah Muwako, Fuller Hannan, Dan Bowers, Fernando Martinez
Paint windows/add store signage Here Because We Love It Here X X $$ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Good Neighbor Network
Start dialogue with City Council X $ City of Chattanooga
Establish after-school program X X $$ Good Neighbor Network
East Lake Rec Center clean-up ✓ X X $ Chattanooga Parks, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise
“First Thursday” art events ✓ X X $ Good Neighbor Network, ArtsBuild
Community Progress Board X X $ Good Neighbor Network
Pocket park movie night Bringing Life Back to Glass Street
✓ X X $ Good Neighbor Network
Grill park at Waller X X $ Chattanooga Parks
Street lights The Next Big Thing X X X $$$ City of Chattanooga, DOT, Bike Walk Chattanooga
Sidewalks The Next Big Thing X X X X $$$ City of Chattanooga, DOT, Bike Walk Chattanooga
Promote public safety X X $ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Police Department
Code review X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA
Create active core of churches X X $ Good Neighbor Network
Promote small business opportunities X X $ Launch Chattanooga
CATEGORY ARCHITECTURE ART COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
HEALTH PLANNING OPEN SPACE
SAFETY STREETSCAPE TRANSPORTATION COST PARTNERS
TEAM 3Facilitators: Will Dowdy, Macon Toledano
Members: John Bilderback, Kim Bonds, Dan Bryan, Ashley Conrad, Chelsea Conrad, Sarah Cook, Rondell Crier, Laura Margaret Jones, Reginald Ruff
The Orchard Walk
Clean up ✓ X X X X $ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Good Neighbor Network
Mow the grass ✓ X X X X $ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Good Neighbor Network
Collect ideas from the neighbors X X $ Good Neighbor Network
Invite neighbors to plant fruit trees X X X $ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Good Neighbor Network
Get the city to repair the sidewalks X X X X $ City of Chattanooga, DOT, Bike Walk Chattanooga
Create a walking path X X X X X $$ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA, DOT, Bike Walk Chattanooga
Plant trees on the connecting streets X X $$ City of Chattanooga, DOT
Make more permanent improvements X X $$$ City of Chattanooga, DOT
Welcome to Glass Street
Clean the corner Here Because We Love It Here
✓ X X $ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Good Neighbor Network
Paint the crosswalks with art Here Because We Love It Here
✓ X X X $ City of Chattanooga, DOT, ArtsBuild
Host an annual intersection painting Here Because We Love It Here
✓ X X X X $ City of Chattanooga, DOT, Good Neighbor Network, ArtsBuild
Get the city to repair the sidewalks Here Because We Love It Here X X X X $ City of Chattanooga, DOT, Bike Walk Chattanooga
Plant trees on the side of the street Here Because We Love It Here X X $$ City of Chattanooga, DOT
Paint the plaza pavement Here Because We Love It Here X X X $ ArtsBuild, Good Neighbor Network
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Host activities Here Because We Love It Here X $$ Good Neighbor Network
Take a look at what works, and make it better Here Because We Love It Here $$
Connecting Spaces
Paint the crosswalks Here Because We Love It Here
✓ X X X X X $ City of Chattanooga, DOT, ArtsBuild
Get the city on board for pedestrian improvements Here Because We Love It Here X X X X X $ City of Chattanooga, DOT, Bike Walk Chattanooga
Fill out all the sidewalks and add street trees to connect the two ends of Glass Street
Here Because We Love It Here X X X X $$$ City of Chattanooga, DOT, Bike Walk Chattanooga
Life to Glass Street
Fill the empty signs with art from the community ✓ X X $$ ArtsBuild
Explore art opportunities to make Glass Street a Drive-Through Gallery X X $ ArtsBuild
Create a curated art space X X X $$ ArtsBuild
CATEGORY ARCHITECTURE ART COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
HEALTH PLANNING OPEN SPACE
SAFETY STREETSCAPE TRANSPORTATION COST PARTNERS
TEAM 4Facilitators: Gary Gaston, Michael Walton
Members: Bob Franklin, Brandi Hill, Carmen Davis, Kathleen Nolte, Katie McCallister, Dennis Clark, Sarah Robbins, Strat Parrott, Toni Gaines
Paint Glass/Dodson intersection and crosswalks Here Because We Love It Here
✓ X X X $ City of Chattanooga, DOT, ArtsBuild
Define vehicle/pedestrian traffic pattern at Glass House Breakfast and Lunch House X X X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA, DOT, Bike Walk Chattanooga
Gather business owners on Glass Street X X $ Launch Chattanooga, Good Neighbor Network
Plant street trees up Glass Street X X $$ City of Chattanooga, DOT
Continue sidewalk LED lights up Glass Street The Next Big Thing X X X $$$ City of Chattanooga, DOT
Plant trees, install outdoor lighting, create gateway art in existing pole sign, install lawn furniture ✓ X X X $$$ City of Chattanooga, DOT
Explore off-side parking X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA
Provide green infrastructure to grocery parking lot Here Because We Love It Here
✓ X X $$ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Parks
Plant edible parks at open spaces ✓ X X X $ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Parks
Start Glass Street Business Improvement District X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA, Launch Chattanooga
Hold street festival Bringing Life Back to Glass Street
✓ X X $$ Good Neighbor Network
Infill mixed-income residential X X X X $$$ Chattanooga Housing Authority, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise
Protections for existing residents from displacement X X $$$ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise
Bury overhead lines/remove utility poles X X $$$ City of Chattanooga, EPB
Glass Street BID begins start-up support programs X X $$$ Launch Chattanooga
Street festival expands X X $$ Good Neighbor Network
Improve connection to light rail/Railroad Museum The Next Big Thing X X X X X X $$$ City of Chattanooga, DOT, Bike Walk Chattanooga
CATEGORY ARCHITECTURE ART COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
HEALTH PLANNING OPEN SPACE
SAFETY STREETSCAPE TRANSPORTATION COST PARTNERS
TEAM 5Facilitators: Ceara O’Leary, Ann Coulter
Members: Andrew Steele, Bruz Clark, Carlos Hampton, Dale Grisso, Elizabeth Williams, James McKissic, John Brown, Michael Prater, Taylor Kinser
Business Support: Pop-Up to Permanent
Identify 2 key pop-up locations X X $ Launch Chattanooga
Central green space links strip X X $ Chattanooga Parks
Pop-up idea board with map ✓ X $ Good Neighbor Network
Connect with Causeway X $ Causeway
Create/access program for property improvements X X X $$ Chattanooga Housing Authority, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise
Activate key buildings X X X X $$$ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Launch Chattanooga
Support major repairs to buildings X X X $$$ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise
Continue building partnerships with owners X X X $ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise
Highlight educational opportunities and access to healthy foods X X X $ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Good Neighbor Network
Streetscape Improvements for Safety
Start discussion with City for lighting/streetscape improvements X X X $ City of Chattanooga, DOT
Extend banners, art including all properties Here Because We Love It Here
✓ X $ City of Chattanooga, DOT, property owners, ArtsBuild
Street signs X X X $$ City of Chattanooga, DOT
Fix pot holes X X $$ City of Chattanooga, DOT
Install lighting/streetscape improvements The Next Big Thing X X X $$$ City of Chattanooga, DOT
Pavement changes at key intersections Here Because We Love It Here X X X $$$ City of Chattanooga, DOT
Gateway signs Here Because We Love It Here
✓ X X X $$ City of Chattanooga, ArtsBuild
Expand improvements beyond Glass Street $$$Blue + Green Open Space
Waterway signage ✓ X X $ City of Chattanooga
Find partners, engage City X $ City of Chattanooga
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Glass Street Glass Bridge X $$ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA, DOT
Work with City to plan daylighting X X X $ City of Chattanooga, EPB
Create central green space around creek X $$ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA, Chattanooga Parks
Daylight creeks and connect to central green space X X $$ City of Chattanooga, EPB
Enhance and complete central green space X $$$ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Parks
Connect with city water network X $$$ City of Chattanooga
Events + Community Gathering + Getting the Word Out
Clean & Green Community walk: fire/police, clean-up Bringing Life Back to Glass Street X X $ Chattanooga Police Department, Chattanooga Fire Department, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Good Neighbor Network
Expand communications X X $ Good Neighbor Network
Connect with surrounding neighborhood identity X X $ Good Neighbor Network
Parade (24 hour fest) ✓ X X $$ Good Neighbor Network
Gospel on Glass Bringing Life Back to Glass Street
✓ X X $ Good Neighbor Network
Kids neighborhood planning workshops ✓ X X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA, Good Neighbor Network
Ongoing community programming ✓ X X X $ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Good Neighbor Network
Publishing artist residency X $$ ArtsBuild
Pavilion with outdoor market/gathering space X X X $$$ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Parks
History and culture interpretive signage X X X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA
CATEGORY ARCHITECTURE ART COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
HEALTH PLANNING OPEN SPACE
SAFETY STREETSCAPE TRANSPORTATION COST PARTNERS
TEAM 6Facilitators: Chooch Pickard, Rick Wood
Members: Akosua Cook, Blythe Bailey, Brad Bennett, Elise Walker, Gabby Blades, Keif Schliefer, Levar Wilson, Sally Morrow, Stefanie deOlloqui
Bolster the Good Neighborhood Network
Empower residents with contact for neighborhood needs (sidewalk repair, flooding issues, trash or garbage, etc.)
✓ X X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Good Neighbor Network
Invite City Council and Department Heads to neighborhood meetings ✓ X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA, DOT
Pop-Up Activities
Tailgate parties in vacant asphalt lots with picnic tables/games ✓ X X $ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Good Neighbor Network
Locations for tailgate parties leads to long-term investment ✓ X X $$ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA
Identify Key Properties
Map the Stormwater and WPA “ditches” X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA
Map the key properties (identify landownership) X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA
Community Event 2016
100 Year Anniversary of NPS/Sherman Reservation X X $$ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Parks
Launch Plan of Improved Access (to Sherman Reservation and throughout Glass Street) X X X X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA, Chattanooga Parks
Implement Shuttle System during event X $$ City of Chattanooga, CARTA
Host public art contest X X $ City of Chattanooga, ArtsBuild
Traffic Calming
Work with landowners to install more planters on private property X $ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Parks, property owners
Road surfaces treatment X $$ City of Chattanooga, DOT
Cross-walk study X X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA, DOT, Bike Walk Chattanooga
Fence Incentive X X $$ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Good Neighbor Network
Historic Asset Survey
WPA ditches X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA
Buildings X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA
Glass Farm X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA
Rail X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA
Develop Design Standards
Develop facade funding incentives X X $$ Chattanooga Housing Authority, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise
Ensure quality/materials as buildings are redeveloped X $ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise
Public Wi-Fi
Work with EPB and City X X $$ City of Chattanooga, EPB
Include in parks and at bus stops X X $$ City of Chattanooga, EPB, Chattanooga Parks, CARTA
Art
Make use of abandoned signs with rotating art exhibit ✓ X X $ ArtsBuild
Develop Comprehensive Plan for Glass Street
Serves as guide as change begins, guides growth and investment X X X X X $$$ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA
Plan should have special focus on diversity of housing X X X $$$ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA, Chattanooga Housing Authority
Capital Improvements
Build the Sherman Reservation connection X $$$ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA, DOT, Chattanooga Parks, Bike Walk Chattanooga
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Build trails and connectivity throughout the neighborhood X X $$$ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA, DOT, Chattanooga Parks, Bike Walk Chattanooga
Make improvements to the street: encourage calming, livability (get project on MPO calendar and funding priority)
The Next Big Thing X X $$$ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA, DOT, Bike Walk Chattanooga
CATEGORY ARCHITECTURE ART COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
HEALTH PLANNING OPEN SPACE
SAFETY STREETSCAPE TRANSPORTATION COST PARTNERS
TEAM 7Facilitators: Lauren Lowery, David Barlew, Jr.
Members: Abbie Roberts, Bethany Congdon, Peter Murphy, Brad Shelton, Ross Andrews, Will Smith, Jeff Phitzer, Nori Moss, John Bridger, Karen Rennich, Bob McNutt, Brandon Sutton
Creative Placemaking
Signage projects ✓ X X $ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Parks
Paint fire hydrants ✓ X X X $ City of Chattanooga, Good Neighbor Network
Upkeep on Glass Street mural ✓ X $ ArtsBuild, Good Neighbor Network
Painting scheme for parking Here Because We Love It Here
✓ X X X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA, ArtsBuild, Good Neighbor Network
Kids zone signs Here Because We Love It Here
✓ X X X X $ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Parks
School bus signage ✓ X X X X $ City of Chattanooga, DOT
Resident pride flags ✓ X X $ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Good Neighbor Network
Street sign toppers X X X $$ City of Chattanooga, DOT
Feet on the Streets
Outdoor classroom X X X $$ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Parks, Good Neighbor Network
Crumbling WPA ditch repair X X X $$$ City of Chattanooga, WPA
Community Garden at Hardy ✓ X X X $$ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Parks
Outside Theater ✓ X X $$ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Parks, Good Neighbor Network
Porches of East Chattanooga Bringing Life Back to Glass Street
✓ X X $$ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Good Neighbor Network
Residential upkeep workdays Bringing Life Back to Glass Street
✓ X X $ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Good Neighbor Network
Way-finding signage Bringing Life Back to Glass Street
✓ X X X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA
Architect for a day ✓ X X $ AIA Tennessee
New Partnerships
Storefront grants X X X $$ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Launch Chattanooga
Neighborhood tree program The Next Big Thing X $$$ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Parks
Landscaping program The Next Big Thing X $$$ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Parks
Curbs on Stuart Street X X X $$$ City of Chattanooga, DOT
Bike and trail connections The Next Big Thing X X X $$$ City of Chattanooga, DOT, Chattanooga Parks, Bike Walk Chattanooga
Early childhood program X X X $$$Forgivable loan housing X X X $$$ Chattanooga Housing Authority, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise
Townhouses X X X $$$($) Chattanooga Housing Authority, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise
CATEGORY ARCHITECTURE ART COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
HEALTH PLANNING OPEN SPACE
SAFETY STREETSCAPE TRANSPORTATION COST PARTNERS
TEAM 8Facilitators: Gene Burse, Eric Myers
Members: Lauren Dunn, Jonathan Butler, Martin Gadd, Marcus Simon, Jennifer Holder, Olga de Klein, Cat Collier Martinez
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North Chamberlain Gateway
Mural facing TN Valley Railroad Museum ✓ X X $ ArtsBuild
Mural or signage welcoming visitors to Glass Street Here Because We Love It Here
✓ X X $ ArtsBuild
Dodson Avenue Gateway
Build/install “Glass Street Welcome” sign Here Because We Love It Here
✓ X X $ City of Chattanooga, DOT, ArtsBuild
Landscape corner of Glass and Dodson to curve Here Because We Love It Here
✓ X $ City of Chattanooga, DOT, Chattanooga Parks
Build/install planters to accent welcome sign Here Because We Love It Here
✓ X $ City of Chattanooga, DOT, Chattanooga Parks
Greenway “Walkable” Gateway
Clear/create walking/bicycle path: Cushman Street to Bachman Street to Latta Street, down Wheeler Avenue
Here Because We Love It Here X X X $$ City of Chattanooga, DOT, Bike Walk Chattanooga
Place planter boxes, railroad ties, and easements Here Because We Love It Here X X $$ City of Chattanooga, DOT, Chattanooga Parks
Install sidewalks and bicycles lanes on corresponding streets Here Because We Love It Here X X X $$ City of Chattanooga, DOT, Bike Walk Chattanooga
Install street lighting and solar paint along pathway Here Because We Love It Here X X X X $$ City of Chattanooga, DOT
Historic Landmark Signage and Accessibility
Create guerrilla historic markers, way-finding and directional signage ✓ X $ ArtsBuild, AIGA, Walk [Your City]
Improve Neighborhood Homes and Healthy Porch Sitting
“Light Up the Night” or “Porch Project” homeowner improvements to front porches
Bringing Life Back to Glass Street X X $$ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Good Neighbor Network
Neighborhood Handyman connection Bringing Life Back to Glass Street X X $ Good Neighbor Network
Install bike repair station Bringing Life Back to Glass Street X X $ Good Neighbor Network,Chattanooga Bicycle Club, Bike Walk Chattanooga
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Turn Pavement Pieces into Green Improvements
Old Post Office location and lot ✓ X $$ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Parks, property owners
Old Sunny Town Supermarket building and lot ✓ X $$ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Parks, property owners
Art, mural and signage installations in empty lots ✓ X X $ City of Chattanooga, ArtsBuild, property owners
Facade improvements (Old Theatre on Glass Street) X $$ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Good Neighbor Network
Mobile Market
Designate consistent location X X X $ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Parks
Install permanent sign with day/time X $ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Parks
Permanent historic markers X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA
Phase 2 facade improvements (grant programs) X $$ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Good Neighbor Network
Local business recruitment from incubators X $ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Launch Chattanooga
Food Co-op/grocery store/convenience store X X $$$ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Launch Chattanooga
Weekly farmers market X $$ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Parks, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Good Neighbor Network
Partnership with Chamber of Commerce - Leadership Chattanooga to recruit trained leaders to volunteer for short/long term Glass Street projects X X $ City of Chattanooga, Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Chattanooga
Diversify housing/attract private developers X X X X $$$ Chattanooga Housing Authority, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise
Partner with and offer housing incentives to large employers (Amazon, Volkswagen) X X X $$$ Chattanooga Housing Authority, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Chamber of Commerce
CATEGORY ARCHITECTURE ART COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
HEALTH PLANNING OPEN SPACE
SAFETY STREETSCAPE TRANSPORTATION COST PARTNERS
TEAM 9Facilitators: Mike Watkins, Thomas Palmer
Members: Gail McKeel, James Moreland, William Smith, Brandi Hill, Lisa Flint, Ed Garbee, Hunter Franks, Chris Lykins
Open Doors in Glass Houses
Call to action: pair neighbors with artists The Next Big Thing X X X $ ArtsBuild, Good Neighbor Network
Interview owners before/during/after The Next Big Thing X $ Good Neighbor Network
More doors added to project The Next Big Thing X X X $ ArtsBuild, Good Neighbor Network
Tour of doors The Next Big Thing X $ Good Neighbor Network
Postcards/posters of doors The Next Big Thing X X $ AIGA
Door Festival The Next Big Thing X $$ ArtsBuild, Good Neighbor Network
Door exchange/artists invited The Next Big Thing X X $ ArtsBuild, Good Neighbor Network
Door app The Next Big Thing X $Open Spaces in Glass Farms
Partner with schools and churches X X X $ Good Neighbor Network
Build out programming X X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA, Good Neighbor Network
Pop-up: dog park, basketball court, dance floor, frozen lady, market, tea house ✓ X X $$ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Good Neighbor Network
Semi-permanent/permanent structure informed by pop-up spaces/events X X $$$Blueways on Glass Street
Research: Emerald Necklace (in Boston) > Glass Necklace? X X $ City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Parks
Wayfinding, projection ✓ X $ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA
Pop-up kiddie pools ✓ X X $ Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Good Neighbor Network
Reflecting pool X $$$ City of Chattanooga, CHCRPA, Chattanooga Parks
KEY 13 Point: GHC-Focus Project 1 Month: $: $1,000 or less
10 Point: Urbanism Workshop Proposed Project 1 Year: $$: $10,000 or less
3 Years: $$$: $100,000 or less
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